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...beefsteak." Carlos cut the thick slices, said: "Seventysix pesos [the equivalent of 19? a pound]." Señora Ferrer protested: "But Don Carlos, only last Friday I paid 60." Sighed the butcher: "That was Friday. Today this is the price; soon it will be more." The housewife settled for stew beef...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARGENTINA: Austerity for Dinner | 6/22/1959 | See Source »

...throb of skin drums mingled with" the high-pitched, cacophonous music of steel-stringed gourds. Fires flickered in every direction under great cauldrons simmering with a beef stew made from 14 cows and oxen. The village of Mahusekwa in Southern Rhodesia's Chiota reserve, only an hour's drive from bustling, modern Salisbury, made ready to crown a King...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SOUTHERN RHODESIA: King Willie | 5/11/1959 | See Source »

...Communications Act, the so-called "equal time" provision, requires a broadcasting station to give any political candidate as much time as it gives any other-as Daly knows full well. Last week Lar Daly's insistence had radio and television newsmen across the country in a stew and the President of the U.S. in a state of irritation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Free, Equal & Ridiculous | 3/30/1959 | See Source »

...gospel." Yet the price of this attitude can be "moral irrelevance"-flawed by such asides as Barth's sneer at "praying away" Communism because God's answer might be American "fleshpots." Chided Niebuhr: "The dilemma is so deep that I would prefer to let the eminent theologian stew in it for a while, at least until he realizes that he is not the only prophet of the Lord." Barth's attitude "always involves the danger of speaking after the imagination of our own hearts. It is subject to Jeremiah's condemnation about the false prophets...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Bit for Barth's Bite | 2/23/1959 | See Source »

...person of John Daniels. Against him will be some combination of Koni Ulbrich, Fred Cooley, and Dave Seaton in the 220 and Bob Komanda in the 440. The Lion's third big strength is the dive, where the use of a low board favors the Lion's Stew Summers and Glenn Gemelli over Chick Montgomery. The home pool factor, however, may be able to offset this and break up the Dartmouth combination...

Author: By Thomas M. Pepper, | Title: Varsity Swimmers to Face Strong Dartmouth Squad | 2/14/1959 | See Source »

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